At first I wanted a trackball mouse, now I just want a USB ThinkPad style keyboard instead, which I’d probably get if I had a desktop.
I basically don’t have to move my arms, the mouse is in middle of the keyboard. After a while it feels not like a pointing device, but an extension of the finger.
Scrolling long pages is also pretty nice. Press down middle-click with thumb, push down/up TrackPoint with index finger. I can just keep scrolling without moving fingers, just varying pressure.
But it’s not perfect either. There’s often some drifting. As far as I know, it continually calibrates itself, to prevent drift in most cases. Well, if you’ve just been scrolling down for a while and let go, the mouse pointer will drift upwards for a bit. Similar to if you’ve been resting a finger on it without doing anything. It got recalibrated as your finger literally being a part of it.
You just have to… wait a few seconds. Annoying but not too bad.
edit: Back in the nineties or aughties, I had something similar to this. I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone, but it does seem to have goals similar to yours.
At first I wanted a trackball mouse, now I just want a USB ThinkPad style keyboard instead, which I’d probably get if I had a desktop.
I basically don’t have to move my arms, the mouse is in middle of the keyboard. After a while it feels not like a pointing device, but an extension of the finger.
Scrolling long pages is also pretty nice. Press down middle-click with thumb, push down/up TrackPoint with index finger. I can just keep scrolling without moving fingers, just varying pressure.
But it’s not perfect either. There’s often some drifting. As far as I know, it continually calibrates itself, to prevent drift in most cases. Well, if you’ve just been scrolling down for a while and let go, the mouse pointer will drift upwards for a bit. Similar to if you’ve been resting a finger on it without doing anything. It got recalibrated as your finger literally being a part of it.
You just have to… wait a few seconds. Annoying but not too bad.
That seems achievable.
edit: Back in the nineties or aughties, I had something similar to this. I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone, but it does seem to have goals similar to yours.